- LeBron James may not be the best player in the NBA anymore, but he darn sure wants the mantle of being the foremost authority on social issues. But only the issues he wants to to discuss.
LeBron James concluded his postgame press conference by rhetorically wondering why the media hasn’t asked him about the Jerry Jones 1957 Little Rock photo, after he was asked about the Kyrie Irving situation. LeBron said he was “disappointed” that he hasn’t been asked about Jones pic.twitter.com/IvdJzZa5Fd
— Michael Corvo (@michaelcorvoNBA) December 1, 2022
This isn't all that complicated. James is asked about a 30-year old man (who was a teammate of his in Cleveland for three seasons) sharing anti Semitic material just last month. Meanwhile, Jones was 15-years old sixty five years ago, a time which was dramatically different than what we live in today.
Look, I'd like to hear Jones' perspective of what he was thinking at that point in time and what the defining moment was in his life that caused him to realize what an awful period that was in American history. While I'm no Jones apologist, I am confident in saying that whatever racist views he may have had in his youth is certainly not reflective of who he is today.
- Just gonna leave this here.
Alex Jones: "You're not Hitler. You're not a Nazi."
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 1, 2022
Ye: "Well, I see good things about Hitler, also. Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler." pic.twitter.com/xZtjq18dm6
Remember, a former President of the United States (someone who desires to be POTUS again) hosted this person and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at his home recently. While Donald Trump can plead ignorance on Fuentes' background, he has zero plausible deniability with Kanye West.
- The DFL leadership has already signaled that one of their priorities in next month's Minnesota legislative session is to address "gun violence." And on cue, the Minneapolis Star Tribune Editorial Board is assisting with the chanting points.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group, there have been 618 mass shootings so far in 2022 (the vast majority occurring in areas with strict gun laws - ed.). There were 690 in 2021. The toll keeps mounting. In 2014, there were 273.
Are we just to meekly accept this level of carnage? That in a shopping mall, a nightclub, a movie theater, a school, a church, so many lives can be shattered or lost? And no matter how heavily armed our society has become, the National Rifle Association's mythical "good guy with a gun" almost never prevents or stops a mass shooting.
A couple things. First, "good guys with guns" are real. The media believes that if they don't bother to give vast coverage of such instances of heroism, then they don't really exist. And second, a significant chunk of places where shootings occur are "gun free zones," which are locations where the property owner specifically bans guns. That certainly is their right to do so, but can ya take a wild guess as to who is most likely to ignore such a directive? (Hint: it ain't the good guy with a gun).
Progs have been chortling that if more black people become legal gun owners, then NRA-lovin' Republicans will finally make the push for gun control. Well as it turns out, black people are one of the fastest growing demographics in first time gun ownership, yet only one side is making the strong push to inhibit it. Once again, leftists are engaging in IMAX level projection.
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